Shakespeare's imagery and what it tells us

An analysis of the ways in which Shakespeare's imagery functions to reveal literary and personal motives.

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Page 107The marvellously sensitive simile in Venus and Adonis, describing this peculiarity
, also incidentally reveals the poet's acute appreciation of the point of view of the
other person, when he describes the feelings of the snail, whose tender horns ...

Page 282In the first (2.7), 79 lines in length, there are four images only, somewhat frigid
and detached, used by Morocco, who rather pettishly describes Venice as the M.
tjv. watery kingdom, whose ambitious head Spits in the face of heaven, 2. 7.

Page 337Iago, as the soldier of a city which owed its dominance to sea-power, uses sea
imagery easily ; when complaining that Othello had passed him over for Cassio,
he describes himself as ' be-lee'd and calm'd ' ; he knows oth. 1. 1. 30 the state ...